Everyone enjoy their long holiday? Good, because it looks like there will be more than one big announcement in the gaming world in the next few days. In the meantime check out these news nuggets:
- The multiplayer beta for Uncharted 3: Drake"s Fortune is now open to everyone that has a Playstation 3 console. The beta ends on July 14.
- It looks like Sony Online"s first person shooter MMO sequel Planetside 2 (formerly named Planetside Next) will get its official reveal on Thursday evening around 10 pm Eastern time.
- A massive patch for the post apocalypse RPG Fallout New Vegas is due for release later this week.
- Bad news for Battlefield 3 fans. Developer Digital Illusions doesn"t plan to release mod tools for the upcoming shooter.
- The streaming PC game service has signed a deal to offer games from publisher Capcom on various web sites.
- Several former members of Titan Games (makers of Fat Princess) have formed a new development studio, Carbon Games.
- Financial analysts have lowered their forecasts for Take Two Interactive due to lower than expected sales of Duke Nukem Forever.
- Electronic Arts will stream the big announcements from its press event on Thursday on its official web site.
- Rise of the Immortals, the fantasy action-RTS game from Petroglyph, has just launched its open beta test.
- The fantasy RPG Lord of the Rings: War in the North is getting a special collector"s edition when its released this fall.
- Could the Twisted Pixel game Ms Splosion Man be released for the PC?